Weekend Links

 Welllllll, it has been a week!  A week that feels like 10 years.  I think  we deserve to snuggle down in the Ritz Bar, have a Hemingway Daiquiri (or whatever you like), and read some distracting articles.  What have you been doing this week?  read anything good?  (I'm just finishing Dan Jones new bio of Henry V...)

What French women are shopping for

Newly discovered Lavinia Fontana portrait discovered

Virginia Woolfe's birthday was last week!  (along with mine, different years, natch)  Look for a Heroine of the Weekend post on her next week

It was also Burns Night!  I celebrated with a few Scots friends with some bagpipe music and copious bottles of Laphroaig, which might by why I am a wee bit slow today...

A new TV drama is coming about the tragic Queen Ena, if you need a "Crown" fix

A ranking about the best Girl Scout Cookies (I am a Thin Mint girly myself, but would never say no to a Tagalong or Samoa...)
Dame Joan Plowright died (Enchanted April is one of my very favorite movies, and if you haven't seen "Tea With the Dames" go and watch it right this moment!)
LA Animal organizations that could use your help right now
And more ways to help
An exhibit of Sargent portraits of the "Dolla Princesses"  (I'm very interetested in this as I dive into a Gilded Age book...)